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Independent physicians for patient independence deny insurance and government limitations on patient care.Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:29:26 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on EHR MU Meaningful Use Enters the Just Kidding Phase by The Sovereign Patienthttps://ip4pi.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/ehr-mu-meaningful-use-enters-the-just-kidding-phase/comment-page-1/#comment-1494
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:29:26 +0000http://ip4pi.wordpress.com/?p=2004#comment-1494Healthcare has a whole host of these kinds of top-down interventions from trying to create physician driven demand and then on to tinkering with price controls and rates setting and certificate of need and uncompensated care and the list goes on and on. All of these interventions if failed at their core purpose. The government can’t even put a significant dent in the uninsured because of the crowd out phenomenon. It’s doing no better with adoption of electronic records. I agree 100% it was backwards. We were told that with a 40 billion dollar investment we could reap 80 billion and savings. Do the math. If that were the case the private sector would have done this long ago. It just didn’t happen.
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Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:35:08 +0000http://ip4pi.wordpress.com/?p=1985#comment-1480Reblogged this on Dak's Bays.
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Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:04:49 +0000http://ip4pi.wordpress.com/?p=1974#comment-1438HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY QUESTIONNAIRE
-to be provided quarterly by any health insurance third party medical organization

If covered for health care by a health insurance third party medical organization, you are entitled to the following information: The following numerical categories must be provided and explained by every health insurance company on a quarterly basis:
1. DOAR – Days on Accounts Receivable: On average, how many days does it take to pay bills?
2. IDR – Income/Disbursement Ratio: What is the company’s annual income compared to the annual payments for health care?
3. PPIFFS – Percentage Payment in Full First Submission: What is the percentage of payments in full for first time received billings?
4. PTTP – Percentage Transferred to Patients: What is the percentage of billings transferred to patients and not paid by the insurance company?
5. PRB – Percentage Reworked Billings: what percentage of bills require re-work?
6. ARTR – Average Rework Time Required: What is the average rework time required for payment?
7. PDPR – Percent Denials Phone Repair: What percentage of denials require phone call to repair?
8. PDWR – Percent Denials Written Repair: What percentage of denials require written repair?
9. TDP – Time from Denial to Payment: What is the average time from initial denial to full payment?
10. APP – AveragePayment Time: What is the average time to pay bills after initial receipt?
11. PL – Percent Lost: What is the percentage of claims “lost in transit” or “not on file?”
12. AT – What is the administrative time for subscriber payment versus provider payment?
13. PPZ – Percent Paid Zero: What is the percentage of claims not paid or paid at zero dollars?
14. PAPPP – Prior Authorization Percent Performance People Profit: How is “prior authorization” managed – Percent used? Performance type and efficiency? Qualifications of people involved? Profit provided to company by obstructing health care with sham “preauthorizations” or reviews prior to care?
15. PD/SC-R – Provider Disbursement/Subscriber Collection Ratio: What is the ratio of administrative staff and time to pay bills from physicians versus administrative staff and time to collect monies from subscribers?
16. IE – Incentive Equality: Are incentives for prompt payment to physicians also offered in the same way for prompt payment by subscribers?
17. ASSO – Alter Stable Systems Opportunities: How often is the payment system changed besides whenever most physicians have figured it out?
18. PIG – President’s Income Grab: What is the health insurance company’s president’s income grab, i.e., how many health care dollars does the president of the company take for salary?
19. EVIL – Executive Value Insurance Loss: What is the executive value insurance loss, i.e., how many health care dollars are spent on administration and all non-medical and or non-direct care “services?”
20. DUCKA – Doctors Under Contract Kissing Arse (“Quacking” for
short): How many non-practicing physicians are employed by the
company to maintain the facade of medical care? Who are they
(Please send CVs)? Do their medical schools all know what these
graduates are doing? Like physicians with law degrees who helped
destroy the Medical Profession, do employed ex-physicians still add
“M.D.” to their name and pretend they are physicians?
21. NME – Non-Medical Employees: How many employees have no formal
clinical and/or academic medical education? This constitutes what percent
of all employees? Are certified copies of education certificates made
available?
22. AEM – Administrative Employee Manuals: Copies are provided for office
waiting rooms to inform patients where and how their health care dollars
get stolen and might get recovered.
23. ZI – Zimbardo Imitation: Percentage of duplication of Zimbardo’s Prison
Experiment, i.e., to what degree has “powermadness control and conflict”
resulted from the insurance/third party company’s takeover of the Medical
Profession?

All have a right to these numbers and information so that the best decision can be made about choosing your health care coverage instead of going directly one-to-one physician-patient relationship.

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Fri, 04 Aug 2017 04:08:16 +0000http://ip4pi.wordpress.com/?p=1965#comment-1404Reblogged this on THE SOVEREIGN PATIENT and commented:
The reality that we are even having to talk about mandating transparency should tell us the problem is more fundamental than what is being portrayed. We should be asking WHY is it so hard to know a price ahead of services. Once we understand the answer to that question, then the solutions become obvious.
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Thu, 27 Jul 2017 01:25:01 +0000http://ip4pi.wordpress.com/?p=745#comment-1388Try NBOPAS of national board of physicians and surgeons.
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Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:29:25 +0000http://ip4pi.wordpress.com/?p=745#comment-1387Gina,
This is really old. I am not sure what your stance is 3 years later. I finished in 1998 and missed the 1997 cutoff. I do not think I am going to certify a 3rd time. We make so little money it is ridiculous – and I have served the osteopathic profession well. I just sent $1050 in May to retake the boards. I just got an email saying I cannot take them because they did not get my license and residency information before June 1st. This is my 3rd time! My residency cannot change. I understand your frustration and I was just searching to see what anyone else was doing about it. I tried to go ABFP but since I was not in a dual accredited residency I am disqualified. Perhaps if we can find enough people who agree we can make a difference.
Elizabeth Gunther, DO, FACOFP
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Sat, 24 Jun 2017 03:30:43 +0000http://ip4pi.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-1348Thank you. Please connect with Dr. Craig M. Wax on LinkedIn and message him.
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Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:38:25 +0000http://ip4pi.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-1346Hello. I’ve been an independent hospital consultant for more than 30 years and have served more than 10% of U.S. hospitals. I was a hospital CEO prior to that time. Over the course of my career, I have watched as the Third Party Payer System grew like a cancer. Now it has driven many primary care physicians from private practice, forced the closure of more than 80 rural hospitals, driven many larger hospitals to consolidate and/or merge, and devastated the local economies in many small rural communities Here is a link to our most recent newsletter (https://www.bradyinc.com/video/tip-of-the-week/6-21-17.mp4). I would like to work with others to help restore freedom from this monstrous system. Please let me know if I can be of assistance in any way.
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Tue, 20 Jun 2017 02:00:23 +0000http://ip4pi.wordpress.com/?p=1786#comment-1345[…] Policy. Learn more about NPCHP efforts at http://npchcp.org. Read a synopsis of the principles here and view slides […]
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Thu, 18 May 2017 00:04:57 +0000http://ip4pi.wordpress.com/?page_id=170#comment-1303Every government intervention in the payment mechanism over the last half century has had the effect of shielding the patient from the cost of care. It is axiomatic from a policy perspective that if you want more of something, you subsidize it. If you want less of something, you tax it. Whenever consumers of any desirable service, such as health care, are shielded from the real costs of the consumption decision, demand for that service will be virtually infinite—and so will be the aggregate cost of its consumption. Ignoring that basic law of economics is what has caused the explosion in health care costs.

I believe, however, that this situation is in the early stages of a long overdue self-correction. If you’d like to facts that justify that optimism, please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWlptsEmvII and let me know what you think.